JERUSALEM  The call came to the cellphone of his brothers wife, Salah Kaware said Tuesday. Mr. Kaware lives in Khan Younis, in southeast Gaza, and the caller said that everyone in the house must leave within five minutes, because it was going to be bombed.

A further warning came as the occupants were leaving, he said in a telephone interview, when an Israeli drone apparently fired a flare at the roof of the three-story home. Our neighbors came in to form a human shield, he said, with some even going to the roof to try to prevent a bombing. Others were in the stairway when the house was bombed not long afterward.

Seven people died, Mr. Kaware said, a figure also stated by the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, which also said that 25 people were wounded. The Israeli military said that targeted houses belonged to Hamas members involved in launching rockets or other military activity, and that they had been used as operations rooms.

But the events on Tuesday were another example of a contentious Israeli policy in which occupants of a building about to be bombed or shelled are given a brief warning in Arabic to evacuate. The Israelis have used such telephone calls and leaflets for years now, in a stated effort to reduce civilian casualties and avoid charges of indiscriminate killings or even of crimes against the rules of war

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Well, it's the New York Times, so no warning short of a month would be enough. Wonder if their proofreader missed this.

Our neighbors came in to form a human shield, he said, with some even going to the roof to try to prevent a bombing. Others were in the stairway when the house was bombed not long afterward.

Seven people died, Mr. Kaware said, a figure also stated by the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, which also said that 25 people were wounded.

The warning was adequate, it gave the fake civilians time to enter the house, they could have left. And they were voluntarily aiding a terror group to repel an attack, in this case by attempting to act as human shields. IMO, they're combatants.

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posted on 07/09/2014 4:53:06 PM PDT
by SJackson
(government tampers with a freedom so fundamental, one shudders to think what lies ahead. Card Dolan)

Groups like Human Rights Watch have regularly said that Israels efforts to warn civilians with phone calls and leaflets do not absolve the armed forces, which still need to ensure that the warnings are effective and do not allow attacks otherwise prohibited under international law,

Groups like Human Rights Watch have regularly said that Israels efforts to warn civilians with phone calls and leaflets do not absolve the armed forces, which still need to ensure that the warnings are effective and do not allow attacks otherwise prohibited under international law,

The HAMAS Palestinkians (as with their terrorist brethren in Afghanistan and Iraq) habitually embed themselves within civilian populations (not-so-innocent civilians as they share the extremist views of HAMAS) so the onus for civilian deaths is on all the Palestinkians, both the cowards of HAMAS and the civilians who ignore Israel’s fair warnings.

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posted on 07/09/2014 4:58:04 PM PDT
by luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)

Imagine Muslim terrorists warning the other side about roadside bombs, missiles, and suicide attacks...not in this lifetime. Israel has given the Hamas so much warning and respect. Hamas has given Israel hatred and bigotry

As you said, they should stop doing this. This action doesn't show humanity -- but fear. The fear these bombing tactics display will only uncork an orgy of sadism and bullying type feelings amongst the largely evil world.

Doesn't Israel understand psychology? They know the 1949 Geneva Convention (the one that Israel accepts) does not preclude carpet bombing either.

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